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William A. Oliver, Jr. collection related to The Mystery of Edwin Drood

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0638
Abstract The William A. Oliver, Jr. collection related to The Mystery of Edwin Drood comprises 10.5 linear feet of material plus oversize items dating from 1844 to 2005 and includes extensive bibliographic information relating to the works of Charles Dickens and specifically to the author's final novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), which was unfinished at the time of his death. The collection, which illuminates Oliver's activities as a...
Dates: 1844-2005

Shipley--Bringhurst--Hargraves family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0684
Abstract Shipley, Bringhurst, and Hargraves are the family names associated with Rockwood, a Victorian Rural Gothic Revival mansion and estate that was built in North Wilmington, Delaware, between 1851 and 1854. The Hargraves were the last family to privately own Rockwood before its donation to New Castle County in the mid-1970s as a historic house museum and public park. The Shipley-Bringhurst-Hargraves family papers document the personal and professional lives of several generations of Delawareans...
Dates: 1660-1987; Majority of material found within 1735 - 1975

Sombre Reptiles Press records

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Identifier: MSS 0560
Abstract

The Berkeley, California-based Sombre Reptiles Press was founded in 1978 by poet Jerry Ratch and artist Mary Ann Hayden. This small collection consists of approximately one linear foot of material related to the operation of the press and the publication of its works, spanning the dates 1977 and 1994, with the bulk of the material dating from 1977 to 1982.

Dates: 1977-1994; Majority of material found within 1978-1982

Angus Stewart correspondence and publishing files

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0657
Abstract Angus Stewart (1936-1998) was an Australian-born British writer known for the novels Sandel (1968) and Snow in Harvest (1969), a book of verse titled Sense and Inconsequence: Satirical Verses (1972), and the memoir Tangier: A Writer's Notebook (1977). The Angus Stewart correspondence and publishing files collection comprises letters from Angus Stewart to publishers Timothy d'Arch Smith...
Dates: 1971-1977; Majority of material found within 1972-1973

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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 2
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 1
Ayers, Michael 1
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Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
Bringhurst, Edith Ferris, 1874-1947 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1809-1884 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1835-1912 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1884-1939 1
Bringhurst, James, -1810 1
Bringhurst, Joseph 1
Bringhurst, Mary Dickinson, 1806-1886 1
Bringhurst, Mary Thomas, 1865-1965 1
Bringhurst, Sarah Shipley, 1812-1896 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Cushman, Don 1
D'Arch Smith, Timothy, 1936- 1
Dickens Fellowship (London, England) 1
Dickens Fellowship (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Dickens, Cedric Charles 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Adaptations 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Mystery of Edwin Drood 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Elysian Fields, Booksellers 1
Estrin, Jerry 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fuller d'Arch Smith, Ltd. 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Gray, Darrell, 1945- 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Hayden, Mary Ann 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Johnston, Alastair, 1950- 1
Michael deHartington (Firm) 1
Nicoll, W. Robertson (William Robertson), Sir, 1851-1923 1
Oliver, William Albert, 1926-2005 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Ratch, Jerry 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Sombre Reptiles (Firm) 1
Stewart, Angus 1
Walters, John Cuming 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Wolfe, Michael, 1945- 1
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